Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 15:19:58 +0200 From: Sebastien ROCHE <sr@sxb.bsf.alcatel.fr> To: Dwight Tuinstra <tuinstra@clarkson.edu> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: occasional reboots Message-ID: <39229C7E.EA3847AC@sxb.bsf.alcatel.fr> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005161509310.5479-100000@jehovah.technokratis.com> <3921A3EE.E4464CA3@clarkson.edu>
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I had this kind of problem. The solution was to increase the CAS latency from 2 to 3, and to go back to a not-overclocked cpu. Seb Dwight Tuinstra wrote: > Bosko Milekic wrote: > > > > On Tue, 16 May 2000, Dwight Tuinstra wrote: > > > > > Pardon the "me too", but ... me too. With high frequency, > > > I get a spontaneous reboot when trying to "make buildworld" > > > after a fresh install of 4.0-RELEASE. Subsequent buildworlds > > > dump core on either signal 10 or signal 11. A plain "make" > > > will sometimes succeed, sometimes coredump with sig 10 or 11. > > > The coredumps seem to happen at random locations in the build. > > > > Sounds like hardware trouble. > > > > Key words: random, SIGBUS > > I was afraid (but half expecting) someone would say that. > > Does anyone have any suggestions about figuring out the cause? > > Any suggestions on what (Award) BIOS options to set for > maximum stability? > > Is it possible/probable that one of the option cards is to > blame? (Zoom telephonics IDE modem and ATI Rage II Pro Turbo > in one machine; de0 NIC and ATI Rage IIC in the other.) > > Could it be caused by having a swap file too large? > > Hmmm. come to think of it, the single successful build- > world I've done came after I disconnected the (ATAPI) > CD-ROM on my network-connected machine at work. I'll try > disconnecting the CD-ROM on the home machine tonight and > see what happens (may be 3-5 days before I can report back; > I'll be out of action for a while). > > Hopefully I'll soon have a different mobo/CPU combo to > try it on as well. > > Any other suggestions appreciated. > > --Dwight Tuinstra > tuinstra@clarkson.edu > tuinstra@northnet.org > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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